Triple

T1322885
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Clairvoyant E28258 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Glen MacWilliams
Glen MacWilliams was a British-born cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
E152169 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Glen MacWilliams | Statement: [The Clairvoyant, cinematographyBy, Glen MacWilliams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glen MacWilliams
Context triple: [The Clairvoyant, cinematographyBy, Glen MacWilliams]
  • A. Elwyn R. Berlekamp
    Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
  • B. Gottfried Ungerboeck
    Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
  • C. Andrew Viterbi
    Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
  • D. Richard W. Hamming
    Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
  • E. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Glen MacWilliams
Triple: [The Clairvoyant, cinematographyBy, Glen MacWilliams]
Generated description
Glen MacWilliams was a British-born cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glen MacWilliams
Target entity description: Glen MacWilliams was a British-born cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
  • A. Elwyn R. Berlekamp
    Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
  • B. Gottfried Ungerboeck
    Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
  • C. Andrew Viterbi
    Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
  • D. Richard W. Hamming
    Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
  • E. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a498540a2481909e807a762280d3ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c19b76b48190aa8857b80971a842 completed March 1, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf2e13dc8190902879be5fa69adb completed March 8, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbf94e6e881908d15b2ef99f17668 completed March 8, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc0b212608190bbb2310402d86ed9 completed March 8, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:55 p.m.